Notes

How often do you check your website? How often should we be checking our websites? This was brought home to me with a bump recently and it made me realize I don’t check it nearly often enough!

I have a curated newsletter that runs every day and is fed to my website (Social & News Bytes). I’ve had this newsletter for years and have only had issues after major updates on WordPress or when I had to make my site https compatible (Thanks Google). So I don’t often check it…

Well, today, it published as usual and I was notified by a tweet that the site appeared to be broken, and the newsletter had no content. Major heart squeeze – what happened?!? It turned out to be an easy fix but it certainly brought to mind the need to check on the website much more frequently.

My plan, going forward is to set up alerts to let me know when my website is down and when it’s back up. I also plan to check weekly for relevant links, outdated content, spam comments (I get notices when there’s a comment but if I see its spam I just let it go until legit ones come in and take care of them then), bad links, updates, and especially after major updates I plan on checking everything right away!

So, thanks to the person who alerted me – I really appreciated it! And I’m on it!

Kathy,
Thank you so much for stepping in so quickly and providing us with your services. You definitely took the worry out of our not having phone service for almost a full week due to Hurricane Sandy. The process was simple, quick and professional.
We will definitely reach out to you again if the need arises.
Sincere regards,
Karen Randle, PEAR Core Solutions, Inc.
www.pearcoresolutions.com
Love it when I’m able to help out in a difficult situation!
~ Kathy]]>